Rev Michel Borjon SM
Title:
Rev
First Name:
Michel
Middle Names:
François Xavier
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Surname:
Borjon
Order:
SM
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Place of Birth:
Arbigny, near Lyon
Country of Birth:
France
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Date of Death:
Place of Death:
At sea
Country of Death:
New Zealand
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Appointments Table
Diocese | Place | Role | Start Day | Start Month | Start Year | End Day | End Month | End Year | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auckland | Maketu | Maori Mission | 1841 | Dec | 1842 | Linane Vol 1 |
Biographical Notes
Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 1, 1979, p 28:
Borjon, Michel, SM, French, Visitor
b. in Belley Dioc. 25.9.1811; professed 8.9.'39. Arr. N.Z. June '41. Service on Maori Mission in Maketu. Drowned at sea off the east coast of N.Z. 31.12.1842.
(Footprints, Vol. 1, No. 6.)
Ref.: Marist Year Book of 1927 (N.Z. & Aus.), per Fr. M. Mulcahy SM.
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Memorial, Mount Street Cemetery, Wellington:
Father Michel Borjon was born on 24 September 1811 in Arbigny, near Lyon, France, was ordained on 16 July 1837, and made his religious profession in 1839. He set out for New Zealand in December 1840, with fellow Marist missionaries Frs Séon, Garin, and Rozet, and M. Jean-François Yvert [who is interred in this Cemetery]. From August 1841 he was stationed at Maketu. Then in 1842 Bishop Pompallier allotted to him a new mission—Port Nicholson [Wellington], where he was to be the first parish priest.[...]
It was not to be. On 1 August 1842 Fr Borjon and Br Déodat embarked on the schooner Speculator in Auckland, and 12 August left Whitianga for Wellington. They never arrived. A storm ensued, and wreckage from the ship was later found on the East Coast.